Badarash

After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Badarash was settled by Assyrian refugees of the Baz clan from modern-day Turkey in the 1920s, all of whom belonged either to the Church of the East or the Chaldean Catholic Church.{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|p=279}} The church of Mar Gewargis was constructed in 1925, and by 1938, 152 people inhabited the village, with 27 families.{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|p=279}} Badarash was destroyed and its population expelled by the Iraqi government at the onset of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in 1961, prior to which the village had 30 houses.{{cite web |url=https://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,36341.html|title=Badarash|author= |date=16 December 2012|website=Ishtar TV|access-date=2 April 2020}} Villagers later returned, but Badarash was destroyed again during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1987.{{sfnp|Donabed|2010|p=249}}

The village was rebuilt again, and the population of the village reached 40 families by 2004.{{sfnp|Eshoo|2004|p=7}} Violence against Assyrians in urban centres of Iraq led 102 displaced Assyrians, with 27 families, to seek refuge in Badarash by early 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.aina.org/reports/acetste.pdf|title=The Struggle to Exist Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq|author= |date=February 2010|website=Assyria Council of Europe|access-date=2 May 2020|page=33}} By 2012 the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 48 houses and a community hall. Humanitarian aid was delivered to Badarash by the Assyrian Aid Society in May 2015.{{cite web |url=http://assyrianaidiraq.org/news/1100|title=AAS-Iraq Provides Hygiene Materials For The Displaced People In Dohuk & Erbil|author= |date=5 May 2015|website=Assyrian Aid Society|access-date=2 April 2020}} The village's graveyard was renovated by the French non-governmental organisation SOS Chrétiens d'Orient in 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.soschretiensdorient.fr/index.php/fr/item/339-batir-un-cimetiere-a-badaresh-irak?fbclid=IwAR18y0hAP7_NsmtYwoIor_hu1xMteq10jyfBEnjkf9DdDCWhnZS4RM2YfLg|title=BÂTIR UN CIMETIÈRE À BADARESH|author= |date=24 August 2018|website=SOS Chrétiens d'Orient|access-date=2 April 2020|language=fr}}

In May 2022, a group of Kurdish men from the Kurdistan Democratic Party came back to the village and began to place fences, and claimed the land belonged to them.{{cite news|url=https://www.csw.org.uk/2022/05/12/press/5699/article.htm|title=Going behind an ongoing dispute over land in Badarash in northern Iraq|date=12 May 2022|publisher=Christian Solidarity Worldwide|access-date=17 March 2025|language=en}} The Assyrians resisted them and attempted to obstruct them from raising the wall, claiming that it was their land. This incident transpired in a confrontation between the two groups, where the police arrested two Assyrians who were filming the incident and the Kurdish group involved in the altercation. Although the incident was a minor one, it created an emotional reaction among Assyrians worldwide on social media.{{cite news|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/language/assyrian/en/podcast-episode/going-behind-an-ongoing-dispute-over-land-in-badarash-in-northern-iraq/zpakanng1|title=Going behind an ongoing dispute over land in Badarash in northern Iraq|author=Ninos Emmanuel |date=18 May 2022|publisher=SBS News|access-date=17 March 2025|language=en}} The CSW condemned the Kurdistan Regional Government after the incident.

File:IraqvillageBadarash2.JPG|Church of Mar Gewargis

File:IraqvillageBadarash3.JPG|A house in Badarash

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• {{cite book | last1 =Donabed | first1 =Sargon George|date=2010|title= Iraq and the Assyrian Unimagining: Illuminating Scaled Suffering and a Hierarchy of Genocide from Simele to Anfal|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32925/3/Donabed_Sargon_G_201006_PhD_thesis.pdf|access-date=30 April 2020}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Donabed| first1 = Sargon George |date=2015 |title=Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century|publisher=Edinburgh University Press}}
• {{cite book | last = Eshoo| first = Majed|translator=Mary Challita |title = The Fate Of Assyrian Villages Annexed To Today's Dohuk Governorate In Iraq And The Conditions In These Villages Following The Establishment Of The Iraqi State In 1921|date = 2004|url = http://www.aina.org/reports/avod.pdf}}

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Category:Populated places in Dohuk Province

Category:Assyrian communities in Iraq

Category:Populated places established in the 1920s

Category:1920s establishments in Iraq